Turks ‘Using Terrorism’ against Syria as They Did against Armenians, Says Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with an Armenian parliamentary delegation in Damascus.
DAMASCUS””Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that the Syrian and Armenian people face the same challenges and dangers, SANA reports.
The President’s remarks came during a meeting on Thursday with the visiting delegation of the Armenian-Syrian Friendship Association at the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, headed by the Association’s President Tachat Vardapetian.
Drawing parallels between the dangers facing the people of Syria and Armenia, the President said the Ottomans who committed massacres against the Armenian people a hundred years ago are today represented by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government, using the same tools, mainly terrorism, against the Syrian people.
He warned against the expansive threat of terrorism on the entire Middle East region and the world, saying terrorism “knows no border and doesn’t stop at the frontier of this or that country.”